Sanford mathis



UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

SANFORD MATHIS, OF MADISON, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIBDS TO AUGUSTUS H. MALLORY ANDJALONZO B. MALLORY, OF SAME PLAOE.

REMEDY FOR DIPHTHERIA.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 276,257, dated April 24, 1883.

Application filed J ulv 13, 1882. (No specimens.)

In carrying myinvention into effect I first take any suitable vessel and place therein tive gallons of water. I then place therein six pounds of red-oak bark, six pouudsot' whiteoak hark, one poundot' white sumac berries, and one pound of alum-root. I then boil the water containing the above ingredients for from two to two and ahalf hours, or until the liquid is reduced to two and a half gallons. The deeoction is then strained, and to every pint of the strained liquid I add two and onehalf table-spoonfuls of burnt alum, two and one-half table-spoonfuls of chlorate of potash, and one'and one;halftableispoouful offlowers of sulphur. These latter ingredients having been duly combined with the decoetion previously described, the com pound is ready for use.

garglin g, the method'found most et'ficacious for a I n the case of adults or children capable of using this compound is to gargle the throat with the mixture while in a warm state some two or three times a day. In very obstinate cases it may sometimes be necessary to use-the gargle more frequently; but usually it has been found that the use of the compound for the number of times above set forth isTsufticient to neutralize the growth of the fungus and cause it to speedily become dislodged. Its continued use also is found to aid materially in healing the alfectedparts. Where, as sometimes happensin the case of young children andpersons of m'aturer years, the process of g'argiing eanhot easily be performed, the mix; ture may be applied to the affected parts by means of a mop formed of some suitable soft materiahwhieh is steeped in the mixture and then inserted within the throat.

This mixture has been found very eflicaeiousiu the treatment of all kinds of sore 'throat.

I am aware that a mixture composed of sumac-berries, white-oak bark, red-elm bark, blackberry root, alum, and water, has been employed in the treatment of diphtheria; and

I am also aware that chlorate of potash and sulphur are used locally in this disease, and such 1 do not claim but I am not uwarethat any mixture has been prepared before my invention thereof in'which either alum-root or vegetable alum or rettoak bark have been incorporated. These ingredients possess great neutralizing and healing qualities, and render the compound herein described 'very efficacious.

Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim therein is:-

The compound herein described for the treatment'ot' diphtheria and sore throat, consisting of red-oak bark, white-oak bark, white.- sumac berries, alum-root, water, burnt alum, chlorate of potash, and sulphur, in about the proportions specified.

h SANFORD MATHIS.

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Witnesses:

W. H. CocRoFT, O. (JocRoFT. 

